"the album than were released, including: Last Man Standing (Jerry Lee Lewis album) Last Man Standing is the 39th studio album released by American recording artist, pianist, and rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis in September 2006. The album consists of duets between Lewis and some of the biggest names in both rock and country music, past and present. The title derives from the generation of 1950s Sun Studios recording artists such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, all of whom have died, leaving Lewis the ""last man standing"". Following the success of"
"Jerry Lee Lewis, still unknown outside Memphis, to play piano (at the time, a Wurlitzer Spinet) on the Perkins session. Lewis' first Sun single would be released a few days later. Sometime in the early afternoon, 21-year-old Elvis Presley, a former Sun artist now with RCA Victor, arrived to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans. After chatting with Phillips in the control room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins’ session, which he pronounced to be good. Then he went into the studio and some time later, the jam session began. At some point during the"
"wanted to follow Jerry Lee, not even Elvis."" Whatever Elvis' feelings may or may not have been in regard to ""following"" Lewis, Presley was clearly the ""star"" of the impromptu jam session, which consisted largely of snippets of gospel songs that the four artists had all grown up singing. The recordings show Elvis, the most nationally and internationally famous of the four at the time, to be the focal point of what was a casual, spur-of-the-moment gathering of four artists who would each go on to contribute greatly to the seismic shift in popular music in the late 1950s. During"
"sessions aired on TBS in 1989. Class of '55 Class of '55 is a 1986 album by rock and roll pioneers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins. While the album was in part a tribute to Elvis Presley, it was mainly a commemoration of those young performing hopefuls, the four album participants, as had Presley, all began their careers with Sun Records in the 1950s. Recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios and completed at American Sound Studios, the album was documented by Dick Clark Productions, which filmed it from start to finish; by The Commercial Appeal,"
"Class of '55 Class of '55 is a 1986 album by rock and roll pioneers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins. While the album was in part a tribute to Elvis Presley, it was mainly a commemoration of those young performing hopefuls, the four album participants, as had Presley, all began their careers with Sun Records in the 1950s. Recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios and completed at American Sound Studios, the album was documented by Dick Clark Productions, which filmed it from start to finish; by The Commercial Appeal, the Mid-South's largest circulation newspaper; and"
"Jerry Lee Lewis on September 10, 2010, Lesley Gore on October 28, 2010, and Ray Benson on November 16, 2010. ""Million Dollar Quartet"" received mixed reviews from critics (the average grade of 28 major reviews was a ""B""). The ""New York Times"" reviewer wrote that ""There’s a lot to like about this relatively scrappy variation on a familiar theme. 'Million Dollar Quartet' has a pleasing modesty, taking place as it does on a single afternoon, Dec. 4, 1956, in the rattletrap recording studio of Sun Records in Memphis...The actors portraying these pioneers... don’t just play the roles but play the"
"Presley - The Million Dollar Quartet"". This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll. The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance. Perkins, who by this time had already met success with ""Blue Suede Shoes"", had come into the studios that day, accompanied by his brothers Clayton and Jay and by drummer W.S. Holland, their aim being to record some new material, including a revamped version of an old blues song, ""Matchbox"". Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records, who wanted to try to fatten this sparse rockabilly instrumentation, had brought in his latest acquisition,"
"role), and Michael Malarkey as Elvis Presley. This production is again directed by Schaeffer with orchestrations and arrangements by Chuck Mead. The show closed in London on January 14, 2012, having previously been booking until October 27, 2012. The musical transferred to New World Stages in July 2011. The show had struggled at the box office in final months of the Broadway production, taking in $242,786 out of a potential $1,109,700 and playing to 36.76% of capacity for the week ending June 5, 2011. The cast for ""Million Dollar Quartet"" at New World Stages features Eric Stang (Jerry Lee Lewis),"
"Studio with Sam Phillips with Carl Perkins and his band. The impromptu group formed at this jam session became known as the Million Dollar Quartet. Carl Perkins performed the song on ABC-TV's ""Ozark Jubilee"" on February 2, 1957. Perkins and his band also performed the song on the syndicated TV show ""Ranch Party"" hosted by Tex Ritter in 1957. There was also a promo ad for the release of the Sun single in ""Billboard"" magazine. The song was published and copyrighted in 1957 in the US with words and music by Carl Lee Perkins by Knox Music/Hill and Range Songs"
"session seems to have happened by pure chance. Perkins, who by this time had already met success with ""Blue Suede Shoes"", had come into the studio that day, accompanied by his brothers Clayton and Jay and by drummer W.S. Holland, their aim being to cut some new material, including a revamped version of an old blues song, ""Matchbox"". Phillips, who wished to try to fatten this sparse rockabilly instrumentation, had brought in his latest acquisition, singer and piano man extraordinaire Jerry Lee Lewis, still unknown outside Memphis, to play piano on the Perkins session. Sometime in the early afternoon, Presley"
"Elvis and girlfriend Evans slipped out as Jerry Lee pounded away on the piano. Cash claims in ""Cash"" that ""no one wanted to follow Jerry Lee, not even Elvis."" During the session Phillips spotted an opportunity for some publicity and called a local newspaper, the ""Memphis Press-Scimitar"". Bob Johnson, the newspaper's entertainment editor, came over to the studio accompanied by a UPI representative named Leo Soroca and a photographer. The following day, an article, written by Johnson about the session, was published in the ""Memphis Press-Scimitar"" under the title ""Million Dollar Quartet"". The article contained the now-famous photograph of Presley"
"of songs they were known for - including Cash's ""Get Rhythm"" and Perkins' ""Blue Suede Shoes"" - as well as slightly more obscure compositions. Perkins, Cash and Lewis had previously collaborated with each other, and with Elvis Presley (who had died in 1977), during the Million Dollar Quartet session, and would later collaborate for the album ""Class of '55"" with Roy Orbison in 1985. For the last song on the album, ""I Saw the Light"", Cash, Perkins and Lewis were joined by Cash's son John Carter and his daughter Cindy Cash. The Survivors Live The Survivors Live is a live"
"the session, Phillips called a local newspaper, the ""Memphis Press-Scimitar"". Bob Johnson, the newspaper’s entertainment editor, came over to the studios with UPI representative Leo Sora with photographer George Pierce. Johnson wrote an article about the session, which appeared the following day in the ""Press-Scimitar"" under the headline ""Million Dollar Quartet"". The article contained the now-famous photograph of Presley seated at the piano surrounded by Lewis, Perkins and Cash (the uncropped version of the photo also includes Evans, shown seated atop the piano). In 1969, Shelby Singleton bought Sun Records. He began a long search of the Sun catalogue, browsing"
"Quartet. Lyons died in 1994 of a heart attack in San Luis Obispo, California. James L. Lyons James L. ""Jimmy"" Lyons (November 18, 1916 – April 10, 1994) was founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and was its manager from 1958 until his retirement in 1992. The first Monterey Jazz Festival took place in September 1958 at Monterey, California. Participants included performers such as Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars, Dizzy Gillespie, Ernestine Anderson w/Gerald Wiggins, John Lewis, Carmen McRae, Shelly Manne, Art Farmer, Milt Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, Cal Tjader Sextet, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Harry James, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck"
"burning in his mouth. Cash stubs it out in the ashtray in front of him which foreshadows Perkins's eventual death. Luther Perkins Luther Monroe Perkins (January 8, 1928 – August 5, 1968) was an American country music guitarist and a member of the Tennessee Three, the backup band for singer Johnny Cash. Perkins was an iconic figure in what would become known as rockabilly music. His creatively simple, sparsely embellished, rhythmic use of Fender Esquire, Jazzmaster and Jaguar guitars is credited for creating Cash's signature ""boom-chicka-boom"" style. Perkins was born in Como, Mississippi, the son of a Baptist preacher. He"
"Elvis Presley's ""Heartbreak Hotel"" and ""Don't Be Cruel"" would top the Billboard Charts as well. In January 1956 three new classic songs by Cash, Perkins, and Presley were released: ""Folsom Prison Blues"" by Cash, and ""Blue Suede Shoes"" by Perkins, both on Sun; and ""Heartbreak Hotel"" by Presley on RCA. Other rockabilly tunes released this month included ""See You Later, Alligator"" by Roy Hall and ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" by the Commodores """". Perkins's ""Blue Suede Shoes"" sold 20,000 records a day at one point, and it was the first million-selling country song to cross over to both rhythm"
"the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday. Rock-n-Roll and Electric blues emerged in the mid-1950s as the teen music of choice with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, Ritchie Valens, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Brenda Lee, Bobby Vee, Connie Francis, Johnny Mathis, Pat Boone, and Ricky Nelson being notable exponents. Elvis Presley was the musical superstar of the period with rock, rockabilly, gospel,"
"from the same sessions by Davis's new quintet in 1956 which resulted in ""Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet"" (PRLP 7200) and three other albums to fulfill Davis's contract with Prestige. The 1954 session is essentially Davis accompanied by the Modern Jazz Quartet, with Monk in place of John Lewis. Notable as the only time Thelonious Monk made a studio recording with Davis – the two men did not get on well, as Davis felt Monk ought to be ""laying out"" (refraining from playing) during the trumpeter's solos. Ira Gitler, who was present at the session and wrote the sleevenotes"
"His singing, especially on the gospel numbers, is natural and relaxed, minus some of the trademark mannerisms of his official RCA releases."" Colin Escott has said, ""They mixed and matched their disparate styles – and their innate musicality ensured that what emerged had the rarest of all musical qualities: originality."" The surviving members of the Quartet session would reunite several times in years to come, with Cash, Lewis and Perkins uniting in 1982 for the concert album ""The Survivors Live"" and again, in 1985, Perkins, Lewis, Cash and Roy Orbison, also a Sun recording artist in 1956, went back into"
"their simultaneous issue in CD format in Europe. In 1990, they were replicated by RCA for US distribution as a CD and LP, titled, ""Elvis Presley - The Million Dollar Quartet"" (RCA CD # 2023-2-R), the sleeve notes of which were written by Colin Escott of Showtime Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2006, RCA used a copy of the session recordings owned by Presley to create a 50th-anniversary issue of the session. The new release placed the titles in the original recorded sequence and contained about twelve minutes of previously unavailable material. According to Ernst Jorgensen, an authority on Elvis"
"Luther Perkins Luther Monroe Perkins (January 8, 1928 – August 5, 1968) was an American country music guitarist and a member of the Tennessee Three, the backup band for singer Johnny Cash. Perkins was an iconic figure in what would become known as rockabilly music. His creatively simple, sparsely embellished, rhythmic use of Fender Esquire, Jazzmaster and Jaguar guitars is credited for creating Cash's signature ""boom-chicka-boom"" style. Perkins was born in Como, Mississippi, the son of a Baptist preacher. He grew up in Como, Mississippi, and taught himself to play rhythm guitar. Perkins started his career in 1953 as a"
"albums chart. Lewis played Vegas at the same time as Elvis Presley, who was enjoying his own comeback around this time. According to Rick Bragg's authorized biography ""Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story"", in 1969 Presley tracked Jerry Lee down at a hotel in Columbus, Ohio and invited him to see his show at the International, an invitation Lewis accepted. According to Lewis guitarist Kenny Lovelace, when Presley introduced Lewis during the show, the audience gave him a standing ovation. The next year, Lewis would be playing the International with his own band while Elvis played in the main room."
"#4. In the UK, ""Paralyzed"" reached no. 8 after its release in August, 1957 in a 10-week chart run as an HMV single, 45-POP 378, backed with ""When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again"". Elvis Presley performed the song on the 1956 Million Dollar Quartet sessions and live in concert in 1956. A live version is featured on the 5-CD box set ""The Young Man with the Big Beat"" (2011). The song also appears on the 1990 BMG collection ""The Million Dollar Quartet"" and ""The Complete Million Dollar Quartet"". The song is also on the box set ""The King"
"and Moore also played in a band with Paul Burlison, Johnny Burnette, Dorsey Burnette on steel guitar, and a drummer. In July 1954, Sam Phillips, of Sun Records, asked Black and Moore to play backup for the as-yet-unknown Elvis Presley. Black played slap bass with Moore on the guitar, while Presley played rhythm guitar and sang lead. Neither musician was overly impressed with Presley, but they agreed a studio session would be useful to explore his potential. On July 5, 1954, the trio met at Sun studios to rehearse and record a handful of songs. According to Moore, the first"
"Elvis Presley's ""Don't Be Cruel"" and ""Paralyzed"", Chuck Berry's ""Brown Eyed Handsome Man"", Pat Boone's ""Don't Forbid Me"" and Presley doing an impersonation of Jackie Wilson (who was then with Billy Ward and the Dominoes) on ""Don't Be Cruel"". Lewis's own singles (on which he was billed as ""Jerry Lee Lewis and his Pumping Piano"") advanced his career as a soloist during 1957, with hits such as ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"", a Big Maybelle cover, and ""Great Balls of Fire"", his biggest hit, bringing him international fame, despite criticism for the songs, which prompted some radio stations to boycott"
"from drowning. He had sustained three fractured vertebrae in his neck, a severe concussion, a broken collar bone, and lacerations all over his body in the crash. Perkins remained unconscious for an entire day. The driver of the pickup truck, Thomas Phillips, a 40-year-old farmer, died when he was thrown into the steering wheel. Jay Perkins had a fractured neck and severe internal injuries; he never fully recovered and died in 1958. On March 23, Bill Black, Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana, the members of Elvis's band, visited Perkins on their way to New York to appear with Presley the"
"Lee Lewis backing him on piano. Cash was also in the studio, and the four started an impromptu jam session. Phillips left the tapes running and the recordings, almost half of which were gospel songs, survived. They have since been released under the title ""Million Dollar Quartet"". In ""Cash: the Autobiography"", Cash wrote that he was the farthest from the microphone and sang in a higher pitch to blend in with Elvis. Cash's next record, ""Folsom Prison Blues"", made the country top five. His ""I Walk the Line"" became number one on the country charts and entered the pop charts"
"to number 4 in 1977. In 1979, Lewis switched to Elektra and produced the critically acclaimed ""Jerry Lee Lewis"", although sales were disappointing. In 1986, Lewis was one of the inaugural inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although looking frail after several hospitalizations due to stomach problems, Lewis was responsible for beginning an unplanned jam at the end of the evening, which was immediately incorporated into the event. That year, he returned to Sun Studio in Memphis to team up with Orbison, Cash, and Perkins along with longtime admirers like John Fogerty to create the album ""Class"
"Carl Perkins (pianist) Carl Perkins (August 16, 1928 – March 17, 1958) was an American jazz pianist. Perkins was born in Indianapolis but worked mainly in Los Angeles. He is best known for his performances with the Curtis Counce Quintet, which also featured Harold Land, Jack Sheldon and drummer Frank Butler. He also performed with Tiny Bradshaw, Big Jay McNeely in 1948-49, and played dates with Miles Davis in 1950. Following a short stint in the Army (January 1951 to November 1952), he worked intermittently with the Oscar Moore Trio (1953-1955) and the Clifford Brown–Max Roach group in 1954. He"
"Jerry Schilling Jerry Schilling (born February 6, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a veteran music industry professional, best known for his association with Elvis Presley since 1954 (see Memphis Mafia). He managed the Beach Boys for over 10 years, Jerry Lee Lewis and Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie. Presley and Schilling met on Sunday, July 11, 1954. Schilling was only 12 years old and was invited by Red West to join him, Presley, and others in a football game. Presley was the quarterback and threw a pass at Schilling. Since it was such a good catch, Schilling was invited back to"
"2016 film ""Elvis & Nixon"". Jerry Schilling Jerry Schilling (born February 6, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a veteran music industry professional, best known for his association with Elvis Presley since 1954 (see Memphis Mafia). He managed the Beach Boys for over 10 years, Jerry Lee Lewis and Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie. Presley and Schilling met on Sunday, July 11, 1954. Schilling was only 12 years old and was invited by Red West to join him, Presley, and others in a football game. Presley was the quarterback and threw a pass at Schilling. Since it was such a good catch,"
"(guitar), John Wilkinson (rhythm guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass-guitar), Ronnie Tutt (drums), Larry Muhoberac (piano) and Charlie Hodge (rhythm guitar, background vocals). The band was accompanied by the backing vocals of The Sweet inspirations and The Imperials. His initial Las Vegas show attracted an audience of 101,500 — a new Vegas performance record. By 1970, Presley began to tour the United States for the first time in 13 years. NBC rebroadcast the special in the summer of 1969. The song ""Blue Christmas"" was replaced by the number ""Tiger Man"", at Parker's request. In 1977, the program was aired in a special"
"numerous alternate takes. Note Note Frankie and Johnny (soundtrack) Frankie and Johnny is the twelfth soundtrack album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3553, on March 1, 1966. It is the soundtrack to the 1966 film of the same name starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, on May 12, 13, and 14, 1965. It peaked at number 20 on the Top LP's chart. It was certified Gold and Platinum on January 6, 2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America. To coincide with"